Is it true that etrÃ¼sks are tÃ¼rk????

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Mario

No, I dont think so.

The Etruscans were a people of uncertain origins, lived in Tuscany and northern Italy. The Etruscans civilization started in the early 7th century BC.

According to Herodotus (c. 400 BC) who identified them with the Tyrrhenian, they came from Asia Minor; other say from Central Europe.

According to modern historians the Etruscan nation developed in Italy through a gradual and voluntary assimilation of the various peoples living between the Arno and the Tiber.

Today is still a question about the Etruscan language. The Etruscans are generally believed to have spoken a non-Indo-European language.
Knowledge of the Etruscan language only began with the discovery of the bilingual Phoenician-Etruscan Pyrgi Tablets found at the port of Caere in 1964, and this knowledge is still incomplete.

More about Etruscans:
http://www.tuscanweb.com/news/?ID=145

Btw. Turkish language has nothing to do with hungarian, The Finno-Ugric languages form a subfamily of the Uralic languages. The majority of linguists believe that Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian, among other languages, should be included in the group. Unlike most of the other languages spoken in Europe, the Finno-Ugric languages are not part of the Indo-European family of languages. The Uralic languages also include the Samoyedic languages, and some linguists use the terms Finno-Ugric and Uralic as synonyms.

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finno-Ugric_languages

Hope it helps.

Stilicone

No is not really true.
The notice is real but u don't undestand his meaning.
Etruscans probably were ancient lidians (Lidia was the ancient name of Anatolia), whose inhabithants were Greeks not Turks.

Cherry Pie

I think that this cannot be true. Etrusks existed and disappeared centuries earlier before turkish groups appeared. Besides, if I am not mistaking, originally the turkish were Huns who came from Asia and their civilization bears no resemblance to the more contemporary turkish tradition.

Alex CJ

Yes, they did a DNA test of the people living in same area of the etrusks and theyr dna is very very simililar to the people from turkey.
Also the greek Erodoto wrote about this.

WHY we should hate this argument???????????????
We are italian, no etrusks....
I don't see the reason

dinodino

If there DNA similarities between people fro Tuscany and Turkey, this could be interpreted that Etruscans came fro Anotolia -- and the when the Turks overran Antolian they didn't wipe out their precursors and the Lydian gene pool persists in both Turkey and Tuscany.

Also, There were Celts (Gauls) in Turkey (Gallacia) and Gauls in the Tuscany area which would and another commonality.

Also, the HUN in Hungary is thought now not to come from "Hun" and the majority of Hungarians descend from the Magyars with some Goth and Mongol thrown in.

Recent DNA studies in England and elsewhere have shown that anchient gene pools have persisted in many areas -- they found a living man there whose DNA was a very close match to a well perserved 2,000 year old (or more)corpse they found in a bog or cave

giuggiolina90

actually i'm of tuscan origin, the etruscan lived mostly in tuscany, does this make me turk?...i don't know. it's true there are theories who say that the etruscans came from the lydia region in turkey..an ancient greek writer said so..also the word tuscany come from tirrenus the etruscan's king from lydia that came here in tuscany with his people
maybe this teory it's true..but surely..we aren't the descendent of modern turk people..because those are mixed with mongol tribes that arived century later in turkey
Here in tuscany people probably descend from the italic people (autocton people of italy),from the ancient roman, from the etrusk and from the barbaric people who invaded italy (longobards, goths, franc,bizantines etc..)

Il fabbro

Hey boys & girls what are you talking about ? Of course it is thrue. But there was not a scintific evidence. Now with DNA exam it is possible. But don't you know the history of last 3000 years in Europe ?
And what about the possible migrations from Japan to America many thousands years ago ?
Turk anyway is a modern therm like Greece and Italy. Anatolia was the name of the origin. Bye... and mind your DNA, may be you discover to come from Keniotes.

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